NBC 5 Investigates asked for city records detailing the expenses. The documents cover the period Oct. 14-Oct. 21. During those eight days, the city reported spending $1,952 to care for the dog. The expenses include:
$757 for a truck and generator
$616 for "healthcare wipes"
$217 for "labor"
$192 for "gloves"
$40 for "duct tape"
$33 for "Clorox bleach"
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Nina Pham's Facebook page, which has been taken down, included a photo with her dog. Dallas public information officer Sana Syed identified the dog as Bentley, a spaniel. Bentley appears to be a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
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Nina Pham graduated from Texas Christian University in 2010 from the university's BSN Nursing program.
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In a screen grab from a video by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Ebola patient Nina Pham speaks with a physician before she is transported from North Texas to a hospital in Maryland.
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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas staff line the drive that exits the emergency room as they wait for an ambulance carrying Nina Pham to depart, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Dallas. Pham, a nurse at the hospital was diagnosed with the Ebola virus after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan who died of the same virus.
Dallas nurse Nina Pham, the first person to contract the potentially deadly Ebola virus in the United States, was flown from Dallas Love Field to Maryland for treatment at the National Institutes of Health.
Texas Health Presybterian Hospital nurse Nina Pham is helped out of the back of an ambulance on the runway at Love Field airport October 16, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Pham contracted Ebola when she was part of a team of healthcare workers who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States and who died October 8. National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci told members of Congress that Pham, 26, is being transferred from Dallas to an isolation unit at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Texas Health Presybterian Hospital nurse Nina Pham is helped out of the back of an ambulance on the runway at Love Field airport October 16, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Pham contracted Ebola when she was part of a team of healthcare workers who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States and who died October 8. National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci told members of Congress that Pham, 26, is being transferred from Dallas to an isolation unit at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Dallas nurse Nina Pham, the first person to contract the potentially deadly Ebola virus in the United States, was flown from Dallas Love Field to Maryland for treatment at the National Institutes of Health.
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The airplane carrying Texas Health Presybterian Hospital nurse and Ebola patient Nina Pham takes off from Love Field airport October 16, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Pham contracted Ebola when she was part of a team of healthcare workers who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States and who died October 8. National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci told members of Congress that Pham, 26, is being transferred from Dallas to an isolation unit at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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The airplane carrying Texas Health Presybterian Hospital nurse and Ebola patient Nina Pham takes off from Love Field airport October 16, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Pham contracted Ebola when she was part of a team of healthcare workers who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States and who died October 8. National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci told members of Congress that Pham, 26, is being transferred from Dallas to an isolation unit at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci comes out of the building with his arm around Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, for a news briefing at National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, speaks as Director of the National Institutes of Health on October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who was first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Nina Pham, free of Ebola, speaks outside of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Oct. 24, 2014.
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Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, speaks during a news briefing as Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci and Director of NIH Clinical Center John Gallin look on during a news briefing at the National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who was first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci hugs Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, as Pham's mother Diana and sister Cathy, and Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins look on at the end of a news briefing at National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci (L) hugs Nina Pham (2nd L), the nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, as Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins (R) looks on at the end of a news briefing at National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci hugs Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, as Pham's mother Diana and sister Cathy, and Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins look on at the end of a news briefing at National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Faucileaves with Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, as Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins looks on after a news briefing at National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama gives a hug to Dallas nurse Nina Pham in the Oval Office of the White House October 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. Pham, a nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and was first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Dallas nurse Nina Pham in the Oval Office of the White House October 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. Pham, a nurse who was infected with Ebola from treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and was first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
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President Barack Obama meets with Ebola survivor Nina Pham in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Pham, the first nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital is free of the virus. The 26-year-old Pham arrived last week at the NIH Clinical Center. She had been flown there from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Syed cautioned the numbers offer only a small snapshot of the initial expenses and said final figures will be more than $10,000.
Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, was infected with Ebola while she cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of the disease Oct. 8.
When Pham was released last week from a hospital in Maryland, she asked for privacy “as I return to Texas and return to a normal life and reunite with my dog Bentley.”
